Chavo Guerrero signed with AEW in July 2021 and stepped in as the executive consultant to Andrade El Idolo, but he was written out by having Andrade turn on him and the Death Triangle beat him down.
The reason was he was going to Australia to film “Young Rock” and he was reportedly told his job was safe.
But when the show was picked up for a second season and he would have to stay longer Chavo.
He discovered he was removed from AEW’s roster page and took to Twitter with the since deleted tweet: “That’s news to me! I guess having @TonyKhan telling me to go film Young Rock Season 2, & my job will be waiting for me when I’m done, didn’t mean much.”
After deleting that, which appears to have been written in the heat of the moment, he posted another tweet
in response.
Ghosted
Chavo appeared on the Wrestling Inc Daily and talked about him being told his job was safe and Kahn not texting him back. Special thanks to wrestlinginc.com for the transcript.
“100 percent news to me, man. So, originally when I started AEW, talking to Tony Khan, it was like, alright, so you can start working for maybe it was about two months. Then I got the opportunity, I knew I was going back to Young Rock. I just didn’t know when it was going to happen.
“So when I talked to Tony about it, I said, ‘hey, they just called me, I am going back to Young Rock, what are your thoughts on that?’ He said, ‘oh, I think it’s a great opportunity, man. I mean, we are on a roll with you and Andrade, but it’s a great opportunity, I think you should go and do that. Then you will have a job when you come back.’
“So I thought, ‘great, awesome.’ Originally, I was supposed to go for three months, and when I was there at Christmas time, The Rock basically said, ‘hey, there’s a lot of wrestling on the back end, we really need you to stay. We are asking if you can stay.’ So I kicked that around with my wife, back and forth and we decided it’s a great opportunity. So, I decided to stay.”
“Coming back in early February, started giving Tony some texts, no answer, no reply. Called him, left him a voice message, no reply whatsoever. I am like, ‘hmm, okay.’ Then all of a sudden I see I am not part of the page anymore, of the AEW roster. So, it kind of pisses me off, to be honest.
“Hey, I am a big boy, if there’s not plans for me, totally fine, I get it. But answer your phone. I deal with billionaires all the time, he’s not the first one, so it kind of pisses me off a little bit. After working with Vince McMahon, you can deal with anybody. So I am like, ‘answer your phone.’ This is not cool. So that’s where we are at.”
Chavo also explained that he originally signed a short term contract with AEW and isn’t currently under contract to them. But there was an expectation that a contract would be revisited down the line.
He also said he always worked with Kahn directly, and that’s why he’s so upset.
Root of frustration
“Everything was great, no problem whatsoever,” he claimed. “I even got from Tony, ‘go film that, don’t worry, you’ll have a job when you come back.’ I even had some texts when I was in Australia back and forth, he and I talking about plans about doing some stuff. Then just ghost. I get it, you’ve got a lot on your plate, great. But he was the only one I was dealing with.
“I wasn’t dealing with a talent relations guy or whatever. In WWE, I would have been dealing with John Laurinaitis right now, and not directly with Vince. But I was dealing directly with Tony, I mean, I don’t even have anybody else’s number there. So, if he’s going to ghost me, it upsets me a little bit.”
This brings back memories of WCW and Eric Bischoff firing people by Western Union, but at least there was some form of communication there.
This could be nothing more than Kahn deciding not to pursue relations with Chavo at this time, but not responding to him at all isn’t a good look, but everyone makes mistakes.
What do you think about the situation? Let us know in the comments below.
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